Improve Your Handwriting

Ready for a handwriting makeover?

In 2013 PenDance will offer Handwriting
Makeover™ online courses designed to help you improve the legibility
of your handwriting, as well as teach you how to "dress up"
your handwriting to make it look more "calligraphic."

This course is recommended for:

Brides who wish to address their own
invitations, either to save money or simply because they feel it is
important to hand address their own invitations. Lovely penmanship
also comes in handy for writing all those thank you notes!

Adults who want to improve their
handwriting for business reasons, for journal writing, or to help
their own children develop sound penmanship skills.

Students who need to write with speed and
legibility, for written essays or SAT tests.

You don't have to use "fancy" tools like chisel-edge or
pointed pens to create calligraphy! Our Handwriting Makeover course requires only
"monoline" tools, like gel pens or pencils, so that you can
concentrate on learning the letterforms rather than having to learn
how to use a calligraphy tool as well. When you are comfortable with the
letterforms then you can move on to more advanced calligraphy tools.

The course will be set up as a membership site,
where you are given one new lesson each week for 10 weeks. Each
lesson will provide video demonstrations as well as handwriting
assignments for that week. There will be 3 styles of handwriting to
choose from: Italic, Spencerian, or Copperplate.

Italic is recommended for students, medical
professionals, and those who wish to improve their "everyday"
handwriting. It can be written in either print or cursive (joined
letters) form.

Copperplate and Spencerian are script styles
recommended for those who wish to address formal wedding invitations,
write in bridal books, or fill-in place cards or escort cards.
Copperplate letterforms can be varied in so many ways, from
highly-flourished to bouncy and fun! Spencerian is most related to the
style your great-grandparents probably learned when they were in
elementary school...a beautiful, flowing hand that is an American-born
style. We can have fun creating fancy capitals in Spencerian as well,
which is known as Ornamental Penmanship.

To receive notice when
Handwriting Makeover is launched, please fill in the form below.

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What questions
do you have about handwriting
improvement?

Special Discount Available!

Do you know someone who always receives
compliments on his or her beautiful handwriting? If so, I have a special offer for you!

If you could obtain a sample of this
person's pretty handwriting for me to use for teaching purposes in the
Handwriting Makeover course, I will offer you a 50% discount on
the first 3 months of your membership fee. The sample needs to be from
someone who is known for lovely penmanship skills so that we
can "dissect" what makes it eye-catching and special.

Studying samples of other people's
penmanship will help students understand what makes handwriting
attractive and a pleasure to read. We also might find some ideas we can
incorporate into our own handwriting styles!

To participate in this offer, please
download this Handwriting Sample form by clicking the link. Ask your friend to
fill in his or her information and write the 3 pangram sentences that
appear on the form. Then fill in your information and mail it to:

I'll email you a confirmation after I
receive the sample. The more handwriting samples we can collect and
study, the more ideas we can be inspired from!

Our Handwriting Makeover course will teach you to:

Improve legibility by practicing the rules of good
penmanship.

"Dress up” your writing to look more calligraphic.

Change the look of your handwriting by following our "style recipes."

Special Section for Brides: Learn the tools and techniques that professional calligraphers use to
address envelopes and fill in place
cards and bridal books. (We'll also help you with any
etiquette questions you may have about addressing envelopes and
place cards.)

When you sign up for the Handwriting Makeover
course,
we'll ask you:

To answer a brief list
of questions concerning your penmanship goals

Which style of handwriting you wish to learn:
Copperplate,
Spencerian, or Italic(see
Handwriting Samples)

How much time you have to to practice your handwriting skills
before you need them for your specific project (envelopes, place
cards, thank-you notes, etc.)

To provide us with current handwriting
samples based on text we provide you

The Handwriting Makeover course includes:

Step-by-step instructions and practice exercises based on
the handwriting style you've selected

Handwriting critiques

Special access to web site pages containing additional
instructional resources

For brides, penmanship certainly takes on new
importance since there are so many
writing tasks involved before and after a wedding:

Monoline Italic - Cursive with
Flourishes

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